Imagine you pick up a newspaper, or, at the prompting of a friend, read a newspaper story on-line that mentions you by name while telling the story about another person.
Imagine the writer of the story misspells your name throughout the entire story.
Imagine that the story mentions you have/had cancer and "came home to die"....a situation and scenario that you had probably not detailed to many friends or even some family members.
Imagine that the reporter never contacted you, never interviewed you, never confirms the "facts" given him by the subject of the news story.
Imagine you have no recourse to refute any of these "facts" and, at best, the paper will only honor a correction of your misspelled name.
Well, at least the Journal Gazette had the decency to fix the misspelled name. Mighty nice of them.
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/Friendship-brings-shot-at-stardom-12407696
I learned a long time ago to be hesitant about talking to print reporters due to being either misquoted, having my words taken out of context or just being used to forward a preconceived idea or agenda. Once it's on printed paper, there's nothing that can be done. Online is different, but I would rather write and publish my own words most of the time.
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